Boehner is the definition of no-win. Among the leadership who believe, as Rush says, that Republicans will lose to Obama, we have Boehner who wishes only to retain personal power and security, and to gain, at best, perhaps a majority in the senate.
Boehner and Coburn types despise the Newt Gingrich style, you know, where as a minority you don’t act like it, but take it to the liberals with the odds stacked against you, because you know how to work, you win.
These guys are not big picture, but self promoters. Coburn intends to retire wealthy, feigning the role of the messiah on spending, but content to stay in the minority, so long as his damn book sells and that Newt was rejected.
These guys had no intention of being forced to go to work. To show up and to have to actually deliver under the taskmaster, Newt, was a bridge too far, when they could have Romney. After all, how hard is taxation? Simple.